Interior Design Ideas for 500 square feet 1BHK Flat

When a Contractor or Interior Designer first visits your place first thing he wants to know is your budget.

If my Home is a 500 square feet 1BHK Flat – What Interior Ideas should I opt for and what should I avoid?

Knowing Budget, kind of puts rest of the thing in place. Budget plus requirement decides whole plan of action. All your requirements and made to fit in to your budget.

There are always changes in Interior plans as per your budget. For example if your budget doesn’t allow

Difference between Built up area and Carpet area

Earlier flats / apartments were always sold using Carpet Area. In short Carpet Area is the area that is usable. But now Builders deal in Built Up area. 6 months back important decision came out of High Court . There were stricter norms on calculating Carpet Area. Builders and companies were asked to sell houses as per Carpet area. In carpet area – Balcony and Terrace is not counted. Rates will be half for such area.

500 Square feet 1BHK

The size of newly built houses are becoming smaller every passing year. Bedroom size has become 10feet by 10 feet 10. You really need bigger bedroom inside your home. After you have spent whole day out, you retire in bedroom, needs to be bigger. You deserve better. When you are back from work, you spend 1 hour of your time in living room after this you enter bedroom. If we make the bedroom congested then its not cool. Bedroom is already filled with Bed, dressing table and wardrobe.

1 Bedroom Kitchen from 1 Room Kitchen

When you have a home with separate living room, bedroom and a kitchen – you have 1 BHK or one Bedroom Hall Kitchen. You will find many homes specially old buildings in Mumbai with plan of 1 Room Kitchen ( sometimes also referred as 1 hall Kitchen) i.e a kitchen , Hall and no other room.

What is the difference between one bedroom hall kitchen and one Hall kitchen?

One good part is such plans come with bigger rooms. I know places where 1 Hall kitchen looks more spacious then 1 BHK. Anyways..So lets say you want to convert 1 Hall kitchen to 1 BHK.

Tips from Pune Architect and Civil Contractor

Mr. Ashish Sheth, from Pune, is an Architect by profession running business in the name “SAVVY Architects & Interior Designers” His company is executing all type of civil and interior works in Pune and nearby cities. Also read  “Interview with Ashish Sheth, Architect & Civil Consultant, Pune“. Ashish’s Cell # +91-9850810564

What are main concerns in mind of Home Owners when they meet Contractor or Interior Designer or Architect for the first time?
From my experiences in Pune and nearby area, Vastu shashtra gets lot of importance. Space matters. If you buy a 2bhk (Bedroom Hall Kitchen) flat in Pune you need 50 lakhs or more. People want the house space to get used properly. they want you to Plan things which take care of vastu. With Bungalows it is possbile to be flexible in planning. But with Flats/Apartments you have to be proactive and get best solution within given space. After working on all aspects including Orientation given by builder, Interior, Home Owners expectation, budget etc, we finalise budget.